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By the time the server found this Caribbean
shoreline of what Christopher Columbus

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the Delaware don't recall the record

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when he discovered it on
his second voyage westward

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and fourteen ninety three for
centuries ships of the seven seas

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across the bar on the ramparts
of Elmore of Port mighty as the

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border because many historic fort

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guardians of this one time Spanish lean
island which would feed into the United

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States of America at the close
of the Spanish-American War

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and eight hundred ninety eight
order me go is predominately Roman

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Catholic and its religion and the old at
the Rose retain much of the atmosphere

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and culture

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that is bent streets in San
Juan are colorful own world in

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name and character

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but this section has overflowed the nearby
center stage which reflects the modern

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trend that every turn.

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Yet retains some customs of
yesteryear notably the Ensign

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or government controlled lottery
with its public ticket sales

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and lucky winner announcements each Sunday
to the age old for the cockfighting

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introduced by the Spaniards in the sixteenth
century is also government supervised

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and soon right next to the.

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A lot of the top support for
native Puerto Rican the

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Commonwealth housing authority has built
over five thousand low cost home units

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and largely eliminated the ill famed
L. Fund week of slum added facility.

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These huge low rent apartment buildings.

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Yes Puerto Rico has come a long
way in a relatively short time

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and its people are proud of their ability
to achieve embark on a successful

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economic pattern

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and a happy way of life proud to
love the University of Puerto Rico

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and its affiliated schools of learning
with a total enrollment of many thousands

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and their coeducational a
cultural know the intimate

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government Conservatory of Music the school
of Tropical Medicine with its timely

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research helps keep the island amazingly
free of inherent tropical diseases men of

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medicine the Puerto Rico Medical Association
lists over twelve hundred doctors

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and thirty five hundred trains versus.

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Typical of the island's one hundred thirty
three hospitals as a municipal with its

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well staffed clinic

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and a nearby Presbyterian hospital
serves its share of Puerto Rico's two

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and a quarter million seven hundred
twenty four hours each day

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through radio and television

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and importantly freedom of the press
news is gathered intelligence

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and impartially reported ultra
modern printing equipment

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and presses provide round the
clock conditions in both Spanish

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and English three

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and one half days the cruise time for New
York the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

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imports nearly. Over three hundred seventy
five million dollars worth of U.S.

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Mainland goods.

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One of our best customers as central
cold for the island's thirty five

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sugar mills and specialized industries
here more than fifteen domestic

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and foreign steamship company has maintained
regular sailings to Western Hemisphere

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and European boards industry
wise investments in plants

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and machinery have passed the one
hundred fifteen million mark

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and annual salaries for workers directly
employed totaled more than twenty two

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million industrial incentives
including ten year tax exemption

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and other tax freedom

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and have attracted some three hundred twenty
five plants to the Commonwealth since

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one nine hundred forty eight

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and created jobs for fifty thousand Puerto
Ricans operation bootstrap moves forward

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and today ordered Rico as an end to grow
part of the American economic system a new

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frontier for business enterprises the
seat of government of the Commonwealth of

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Puerto Rico is located in the
capital on Ponce De Lay on them.

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Sam won the Legislative
Assembly consists of the Senate

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and the House of Representatives with
originally twenty seven senators

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and fifty one representatives elected by
the people in these days an international

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strain popular twice elected native
governor moon your Smadi in aware of the

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agitations of a small minority
of nationalistic fanatics

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and malcontent administers the affairs
of the Commonwealth with clear vision

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and a loyal support of a stable and well
trained officialdom but at this stage.

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Neither independence

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nor statehood will meet the realities
of Puerto Rico's economic position.

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Let us first achieve then maintain a
balanced budget says Governor Marty.

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Six short hair hours from New York City
Puerto Rico is the aerial crossroads of the

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Americas and the newer air.

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I know

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that these Liberty will accommodate the largest
commercial planes provide top facilities

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for world passenger and cargo
traffic rain the Air Force Base

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and operate the for the two mile runways
is a member of the Strategic Air Command

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an all important link in our
outer defense pattern here.

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Reconnaissance bombers another craft

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or serviced by skilled maintenance
crews many veterans of World War two

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when Korea are on the airman roster at
Braintree the air refuel crew run through an

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inspection by home lifeline
of our area in spring.

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There's this little known activity the
eventual transfer of while in flight a

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miracle of plan timing

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and operation airs the rescue is simulated
And this all purpose helicopter takes to

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the air to team up with
a faster as a ten M.

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Debian which speedily locates then plots
the positions of the stranded men to clear

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signal from their distress grab.

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Yes a ten radio in their area
location of the helicopter

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and the rescue is accomplished all
crafts returned to the base the F.A.

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Ten with the Genesis take off back at the
base the Air Force police squad puts on a

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manual of arms precision drill
under the direction of veteran

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Sergeant Ken Leland.

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I covered all your Myrick was on the
southwestern tip of the one hundred Mile

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Island the fabulous all
fields of Puerto Rico.

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Tons of Caribbean Sea water tight
controls are sluiced a huge

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but deep pools following the same formula
the Spaniards established over one

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hundred years ago

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when most of the water has evaporated the
salt has moved to higher ground than

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complete the height.

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Ration result in the use of some ten
thousand tons per year of clear crystal saw

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the entire production is consumed with
them Puerto Rico salt from the sea harvest

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of Mother Nature cougar cane grows everywhere
in the islands number one business

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a million

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and a half tons a year more than one hundred
thirty million dollars in export trade

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sugar cane growers are paid according
to the sugar content of their case

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and it rates high again as ground on the
say it's within twenty four hours of

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the sugar mills

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or Central East where production is on a
nonstop Basis one hundred ninety days each

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year.

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I now call plantation dot the island generally
between bring historic mountain peaks

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where the soil is especially treated with
fertilizer germ killer and nutrition.

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It's Puerto Rico's third largest crop

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and realizes more than two million dollars
yearly for the growers new methods of

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planting

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and cultivation of the coffee
Bush mean improved crop these

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blossoms indicate the superior strains
recently introduced assure a richer blend of

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coffee much in export demand they help
they be seen as big then time honored

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fashion by he borrowed families

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and the restoration prop program
undertaken by the employer Department of

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Agriculture has paid off in a good
copy year original artist spells

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word for some fifty thousand native of
thirty million pound crop was another coffee

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purported because only the
last five million pounds

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or export in the Coconut Grove
you'd naturally gather coconuts

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and the visitor to the
island is greeted with.

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The for additional
hospitality drink the N.

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Benny the tourist business the border to
go past the Byzantine million dollar mark

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last year.

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Accommodation immediately available the
streamlined luxury hotels with those beside

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the people who are your own private
furnished apartment days of sunshine

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banned by the caressing trade

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when made for air conditioned
relaxation the year round.

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Yes but the air at eighty degrees and the
water seventy five. You can't miss sport.

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Surely volleyball or well
go to college they happen

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and tennis is producing
some likely local talent

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on our way up to the picturesque
El junkie Mountain Resort.

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We passed the village of tell you you
seen the recent ill fated nationalistic

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uprising by the answer to this lookout
atop a mountain peak a relic of Spanish

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rule then the Caribbean National
Forest literally in the cloud a

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paradise of large tropical foliage
where orchids growing wild

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and burns are trees died.

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The view from Elgin gave is
the most famous on the island

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and in the distance equally
famous Meteo beach.

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I still love these days and we'll be
seeing you in the Puerto Rico USA.